Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances

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The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances comprises three identical political agreements signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest, Hungary on 5 December 1994 to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The memorandum was originally signed by three nuclear powers: the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States. China and France gave somewhat weaker individual assurances in separate documents.[1]

The memorandum prohibited the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. As a result of other agreements and the memorandum, between 1993 and 1996, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons...

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Does the US have an obligation to help Ukraine and honor the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances? Should other countries trust our word?
 
If Putin doesn't withdraw he will have moved the border to Poland, Romania, and Hungary.

They're not going to like that.
 
the Memorandum became essentialy moot because of US meddling in the Euromaidan

Crimean annexxation as well.. events have outpaced it
 
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